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Christmas shopping? Get 20% off Scratch Books this week at our online shop. Including these two beauties - the best short story collections in 2024! scratch-books.co.uk/shop

🎄🎅🎁📬CHRISTMAS POSTING! Tomorrow is the last day we can post orders for you to receive any ordered books before Christmas! Head to our online bookstore for a browse… confingopublishing.uk/shop

A reminder to authors with experiences of ghost writing to please complete our short survey before 20 January, to help us plan our work for 2025 👇 forms.office.com/pages/response…

JOINT COMMA BOOK LAUNCH 🎉 🗓️24 Feb @ 6:30pm 📍BlackwellsManchester 🎟️eventbrite.co.uk/e/gaia-holmes-… These brand-new collections examine the manifold crises of the modern world, from oncoming climate crisis to epidemics of loneliness. 📚Tickets just £4 or free when you buy a book!

Thrilled to see my experimental short story 'The Worm' published in The Journal of the Short Story in English's latest issue on Temporality & Landscape. Read for free here, along with some really stimulating papers on a fascinating theme: journals.openedition.org/jsse/index.html

🎄🎅🎁📚Miss our Christmas post dates? Fear not, you can still give the gift of an annual subscription to Cōnfingō magazine, out in spring and autumn, and only £20 for the year… simply click here to subscribe and that's another present sorted… confingopublishing.uk/shop

To celebrate #nationalshortstoryday here are some recommendations for classic and contemporary masterpieces from writers and lovers of the form: commapress.co.uk/blog/national-…

Submissions are open for the BBC Short Story Awards 2025! The BBC National Short Story Award and the BBC Young Writers’ Award are ready to receive your entries. Find out more via the links below bbc.in/4ixvcmA bbc.in/3Br12kl

APPLY NOW! Our newly announced Brutalist Ghost Stories project includes an Arts Council England-funded Emerging Writer Programme, with mentoring for three early stage writers to contribute to an anthology of short uncanny fiction. Deadline: 31 January 2025 confingopublishing.uk/thenewnorth

We are extremely sad to hear of the death of our revered long-time author David Lodge. Our thoughts are with his children and family. His influential place in the history of British letters will endure through the wonderful body of work he leaves behind. Read the full statement:

Just reading a thread complaining about pay walls - look- are you going to buy a newspaper? No, ok. Print consumption declines year on year. So does advertising revenue which is how most media kept online content free. Journalists work and also have to be paid. It’s not a hobby.

I don't know if you'd call this an apologia from the brilliant Kerry Hadley-Pryce (Dr. KHP), but it certainly provides an incisive background to her voice and identity as a writer deeply embedded in place and genre. Please read - would that we could all claim such roots...

Happy new year from the ENSFR! 2025 is an important year for us as it marks the 10-year anniversary of our first ever conference. You can read more about it here: ensfr.univ-angers.fr/2014/10/

HAPPY PUBLICATION DAY! Precipitation is a collection of three stories by Ailsa Cox with images by Patricia Farrell. The fifth in our series of collaborations between authors and artists, it's available for the special price of £6 (plus p&p) till 16.1.25. confingopublishing.uk/product-page/p…

Officially launching the centenary search for 100 Stoke-born authored books 1925-2025. Where are you? Who are you? More info: lisablower.co.uk / [email protected] Stoke-on-Trent CC Stoke Creates Stoke-on-Trent Centenary Keele English and Creative Writing New Vic Theatre

Featured today on Creative Writing at Leicester: the brilliant Ailsa Cox and her new collection of three stories, "Precipitation," with illustrations by Patricia Farrell …eativewritingatleicester.blogspot.com/2025/01/ailsa-… Everybody'sReviewing Jonathan Taylor Cōnfingō Publishing Edge Hill University

The shortlisted books are now with our judging panel… while we wait for the ceremony on 20th February, when the winner will be announced, our interns are enjoying a spot of reading around our beautiful Edge Hill University campus. #edgehilluniversity #shortstoryprize #shortlist

COMMA BLOG✍️ Dark Underbellies: w/ Ross Raisin Award Wins, what-the-bloody-hell-is-this? moments, and an ill-fated 2-piece kop band... The 2024 BBC NSSA winner chats about the win, his story in The Book of Bradford & memories of the city. 🔗commapress.co.uk/blog/dark-unde…

"shuddering with disquiet" Desmond Bullen reads Precipitation by Ailsa Cox. northernsoul.me.uk/precipitation-… #reading #books Cōnfingō Publishing

Reading quite a lot at the moment, and just finished this brilliant short book of 3 stories by Ailsa Cox from Cōnfingō Publishing Sensitive, surprising, beautiful stories about solitude and obsession. Everybody'sReviewing Creative Writing at Leicester The Word Factory